Help

[Naralas]

I am currently after school, working on an old PC that wont boot.

It has 192megs of ram, and a 1Ghz P3. I install XP on anything with 128+ so thats what I am doing.

the problem: the computer wont boot from the CD.

I have about 5-7 floppy disks scattered about the room, a XP Pro cd, access to T1 internet with nobody else in the school online, and an old computer..

DOS bootdisks from bootdisk.com CAN see the contents of the CD. but setup.exe wont run in DOS mode because I think its just taht windowed application that pops up when windows is running.

so what do i tell it to start? It is 2:50, I need to be at another house by 5:00 to work there, and I have never had a problem where a PC refused to boot from CD, let alone a P3....

[mips]

BIOS setting ?

[Naralas]

Finally. Life.

Haha, okay well I went through the BIOS, first item CD, second item Floppy, Third hard drive, fourth network.

It goes "searching for boot record from CD" and the drive dosent even flinch then it says invalid...

Info I left out:
There is only one CD drive.

It finds the floppy and boots from it fine.

The CD has worked on computers both older and newer than this one.

goign to tinker with BIOS again](*,)


Update: (shuda said this befoer)

Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0..OK

Invalid system disk
Replace the disk, and then press any key

IDE-0 isnt usually what a BIOS refers to a CDrom drive as, usually they say CD-ROM...


OH and third edit,

I have already tried my old fallback of booting with a windows 98 cd and telling it to start with CD-ROM support. Thats how I can DIR the drive and know its working properly.